The best comedy is not just senselessly rebellious, coarse or cruel but uses its cruelty to make a further point.

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More practically it is a coarse figure, unlikely to have much utility in predicting future risks, or determining where the remaining resources are best allocated.

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It did not, however, always reflect British or even Tory opinion, which was (and remains) prone to seeing the U.S. as a coarse, overbearing ally.

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